Molly Jong-Fast
Establishment liberal, anti-Trump commentator· 1.1M followers · tracked by RisingPolitics
30.6Credibility Score (0–100) · ranked #139 of the creators we track
Molly Jong-Fast ranks #139 by credibility versus #127 by raw follower count — their raw follower total sits ahead of where their audience quality places them.
Molly Jong-Fast is an American journalist, author, and political commentator who hosts the iHeartMedia podcast Fast Politics and serves as an MSNBC political analyst. She has written for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and The New York Times, and is the author of several books, including the 2025 memoir How to Lose Your Mother.
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Is Molly Jong-Fast left or right?
Molly Jong-Fast is an establishment-liberal commentator whose work is defined by sustained opposition to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement from within mainstream Democratic-aligned media. A novelist by origin, she turned to political writing after the 2016 election and became a prominent left-of-center voice during Trump's first term, later serving as a Vanity Fair special correspondent and launching the iHeartMedia podcast Fast Politics in 2022. She joined MSNBC as a political analyst in January 2024 — and remains one at the network following its late-2025 rebrand to MS NOW — and is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, keeping her firmly in the liberal-media mainstream rather than the insurgent left. In 2025 she published a bestselling memoir, How to Lose Your Mother, while continuing daily anti-Trump political commentary across her podcast and television appearances.
Positioning as of July 2026 · descriptive, not an endorsement. How we label lean
How credible is Molly Jong-Fast's audience?
Molly Jong-Fast scores 30.6 out of 100 on the RisingPolitics Credibility Score, ranking #139 among the political creators we track. The score starts with audience size, subtracts accounts that look fake, and weighs how strongly the audience actually engages.
How many followers does Molly Jong-Fast have?
Molly Jong-Fast has about 1.1M followers combined across YouTube and X.
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